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Root Please help! Rooting troubles!

Just received a replacement EVO 4g, 2.3.3, and had my previous one rooted. It was very easy. Now I'm trying to root my new one and am running into issues. Revolutionary keeps getting stuck at "waiting for fastboot." I have deleted all programs which communicate with my phone via usb, have uninstalled and reinstalled the proper drivers and have downloaded revolutionary over 10 times in case I was getting a corrupt file. Usb debugging is off, fastboot option is un-ticked, and phone in charge only mode. I have attempted this about 35 times and am about to throw my phone and computer across the room. I'm using Vista and am opening revolutionary as "run as administrator." Also, when revolutionary reboots my phone into fastboot, my computer installs more device hardware, a bootloader interface, and then asks me to restart. I don't recall this happening when I rooted any other phone and I have rooted three different models before. I also have done factory resets multiple times.

What am I missing?!?! Also, I have troubleshooted with rootzwiki and all forum threads I could find on the subject, nothing seems to be working.

Thanks so much in advance.
 
I meant to say usb debugging was on. My hboot is 2.16... And unrevoked isn't for 2.3.3 - at least thats what I was told. I tried unrevoked and got error messages.

Racking my brain over here. :-/
 
*** hello.. um i tried to use this to root my evo, but i don't think it really worked, so i tried to UNroot and i don't think that worked either, cause when i try to install the latest software update, after it restarts, it brings up a black screen with a little blue android and an exclamation mark in a triangle and it just stays there, until i take the battery out and turn it back on... what is wrong with my phone/ how can i fix it?
 
southernxmade said:
*** hello.. um i tried to use this to root my evo, but i don't think it really worked, so i tried to UNroot and i don't think that worked either, cause when i try to install the latest software update, after it restarts, it brings up a black screen with a little blue android and an exclamation mark in a triangle and it just stays there, until i take the battery out and turn it back on... what is wrong with my phone/ how can i fix it?
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welcome to the forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok so what is your hboot now? and do you have s-on or s-off? power off then press and hold power+vol down

if it is hboot 2.18 which is the latest update then you will not gain true root access. but you still can get it unlocked. the process is involved and it will making flashing kernels and roms a real pain.

the red exclamation mark is because you have a stock recovery.
 
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